This person, Sama Hoole, posts fantastic historical accounts … I hope he puts it all into a book. But I’ll share this one here, it speaks volumes for Canada.

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Pre-1850s Plains Indian diet: Bison, elk, deer, pemmican (50% dried meat, 50% rendered fat), occasional berries and roots when available.

Health markers from skeletal remains and early explorer accounts:

• Exceptional physical capacity
• Height averaging 5’10“ for men (taller than Europeans)
• Perfect dental health
• Zero chronic disease
• Strong bones, no rickets

1850s-1890s: US government policy forces Native Americans onto reservations. Bison populations intentionally destroyed. Hunting restricted or forbidden.

Government rations provided instead: Wheat flour, sugar, lard, coffee, minimal salted pork.

This wasn’t humanitarian aid. This was forced dietary change to eliminate traditional lifestyle.

Within ONE generation, health collapse:

1890s-1920s reservation health records:

• Tuberculosis epidemic (previously rare)
• Diabetes emerges (previously unknown)
• Dental decay becomes common (previously rare)
• Obesity appears (previously non-existent)
• Alcoholism epidemic
• Overall mortality increases dramatically

Government doctors document this meticulously. Annual reports from reservation physicians describe devastating health outcomes.

But they blame genetics. “Indians are constitutionally weak.” Not the forced dietary change from meat to flour.

Modern reservations: Highest rates of diabetes in North America. Obesity epidemic. Chronic disease pervasive.

What changed from pre-reservation health perfection to modern disease epidemic?

The diet. From bison and pemmican to flour and sugar. The US government didn’t just take the land. They destroyed the food source, then provided disease-causing substitutes.

The traditional diet that built healthy populations was replaced with government rations that created chronic disease.

This wasn’t accidental. This was policy. Destroy traditional food access, force dependency on government rations, eliminate cultural practices tied to hunting.

The modern Native American health crisis isn’t genetic. It’s the ongoing consequence of forced dietary transition from ancestral meat-based diet to grain-based poverty rations.

The cure exists: Return to traditional diet. The barriers are economic access to meat and generations of forced adaptation to processed foods.

The experiment ran. The results are documented. Nobody wants to acknowledge the conclusion.